The third most senior Supreme Court Judge, Justice Olabode Rhodes-Vivour of Lagos State could be named substantive Chief Justice of Nigeria.
Rhodes-Vivour will be appointed should the National Judicial Council decide to dismiss suspended Justice Walter Onnoghen and acting CJN, Justice Ibrahim Tanko Mohammed.
NJC has queried the acting CJN, Justice Tanko Mohammed, few days after his inauguration at the Presidential Villa by President Muhammadu Buhari.
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Also queried is the suspended CJN Justice Onnoghen.
It was learnt that the two judges were given seven days to respond to the queries.
While Onnoghen was queried following the allegations leveled against him on his failure to declare all his assets, as stipulated by law, Mohammed, was told to explain why he allowed himself to be sworn-in by President Buhari without the recommendation of the Council, as required by law.
Onnoghen and Mohammed were given seven days to respond.
Justice Rhodes-vivour was born on March 22, 1951 in Lagos Island, Lagos State.
He obtained a bachelor’s degree in Law from the University of Lagos in 1974 and was Call to the bar in 1975 after he graduated from the Nigerian Law School.
In 1983, he proceeded to the University of Nairobi where he received a certificate in Legislative Drafting under the auspices of Commonwealth Programme.
In 1975, he joined the Lagos State Judiciary as State Counsel and later rose to the position of Director of Public Prosecutions in 1989, he held this position for five years before he was appointed as High Court Judge in 1994 and after eleven years of services in the Judiciary, he was appointed to the bench of the Nigerian courts of appeal as Justice in 2005.
On August 2010, he was appointed to the bench of the Supreme Court of Nigeria as Justice, along with Justice Suleiman Galadima.
